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Wolfson History Prize 2025
The 2025 Wolfson History Prize went to Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin. 6 books made the shortlist.
Winner
- Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Tradesource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
- Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Agesource (opens in a new tab)
- Multicultural Britain: A People's Historysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IVsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kildasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detectivesource (opens in a new tab)
About the Wolfson History Prize
Covers the Wolfson History Prize 2006-2025 from the prize's own past-winners pages (wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk, one page per year). Year is the prize year as the Wolfson Foundation labels it; since 1987 prizes for a competition year are awarded the following year, and the site labels them by the award year. Through 2016 the prize made two or three joint awards a year with no published shortlist, so those years list Winners only. From 2017 a shortlist of six is announced and one overall winner chosen; the winner is listed as Winner and the other five as Shortlist. Titles join main title and subtitle with a colon as printed on the site; the 2023 shortlist typo 'Eruope' is corrected from the winner block. The 2024 page lives at /2024-shortlist/. No fallbacks were needed; wolfson.org.uk/history-prize returns 403 to scripts but the dedicated prize site does not.
Organization: Wolfson Foundation. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Cundill History Prize 13 shared books